As you’ll no doubt be aware we are always looking to hire awesome SEO consultants. Finding, hiring and training consultants is absolutely critical to ensure we are constantly improving what we offer to our clients, and is key to keeping everyone at Distilled on their toes and learning.

We are aiming to build an environment that is the best place for the best people to work. We aren’t there yet, but we like to set ourselves lofty goals and we are constantly looking for ways to make this goal come true.

We are looking for super smart, super awesome people who instantly get on with everyone.

Somehow, Yandex, the well known Russian search engine has launched in the UK with very little fanfare. Please forgive me for getting this post up quickly. There is a lot of research I’d like to do before I make to many conclusions, but since when has research got in the way of a good story!

If you like your search engine to have a minimalist homepage, then you’ll love Yandex.

Yandex homepage

After a very brief play I’m incredibly impressed at the relative lack of spam and the quality of the results that are being returned.

Our new office is now open, and Rob has moved to Seattle where he’s been busy with some great clients and with recruiting an expert SEO team. We’re proud to announce our first new member: Kate Morris has joined the Distilled team as an SEO Consultant.

Its only been a couple of weeks since we announced that we were opening an office in Seattle. The last couple of weeks have been a hive of activity and there is a definite buzz in the air at Distilled HQ.

Over the next week or so I’ll be posting a handful of new jobs at Distilled. If you have always wanted to work with us, then now is a great opportunity to join.

Yesterday, Sam from SEOmoz posted 11 Conversion rate lessons they had learned in 2009 - along with some traffic stats for their blog.

The 10th lesson that Sam posted really struck a chord with me and I got thinking about how best to implement it. Sam suggests that you track how far people get through your forms by registering a virtual page view each time someone completes a form element.

##Some background

One of the first things to do when looking at improving the conversion rate of a page is to work out a list of possible client objections. There could well be some incredibly obvious ones, for example a lot of online shops somewhat hide the postage costs and only display them once you have added a product to the cart.